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High Wire: How China Regulates Big Tech and Governs Its Economy

High Wire: How China Regulates Big Tech and Governs Its Economy

Author: Angela Zhang
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780197682258
Published In: May 2024
Format: Hardback
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In High Wire, Angela Zhang provides a comprehensive and sophisticated overview of how China regulates its enormous tech sector. By closely scrutinizing the incentives and interactions among the key players, Zhang introduces a dynamic pyramid model to analyze the structure, process, and outcome of China's unique regulatory system. She showcases the shrewd self-regulatory tactics employed by Chinese tech titans to survive and thrive in an institutional environment plagued by endemic fraud and corruption. She also reveals how the Chinese State has given a helping hand to digital platforms by offering them indispensable judicial support.

Through a robust analysis of the tumultuous 2020-2022 tech crackdown, Zhang explores the model's profound impact on three vital pillars of Chinese platform regulation, including antitrust, data, and labor enforcement. As Zhang demonstrates, the tech crackdown has led to the private sector's retreat and the state's advancement in the tech industry. These regulatory shifts have also steered investors from consumer tech businesses toward hardcore technologies that are essential for China's bid to overtake the United States in innovation.

More than just a study of China, Zhang offers a global perspective by comparing China's regulatory landscape with rapidly moving developments in the United States and the European Union. This comparative analysis reveals the shared regulatory challenges all face and sheds light on the future direction of Chinese tech regulation. Finally, she peers into the future of China's tech governance, specifically focusing on the burgeoning realm of generative artificial intelligence.

Providing an unparalleled deep dive into China's rapidly evolving digital economy, High Wire is a must-read for those interested in how the manifold ways in which China regulates and governs its economy.

Introduction

Part I: Analytical Framework

Chapter 1 Hierarchy

Chapter 2 Volatility

Chapter 3 Fragility

Part II: Platform Regulation

Chapter 4 Antitrust Regulation

Chapter 5 Data Regulation

Chapter 6 Labor Regulation

Part III: Platform Self-Regulation

Chapter 7 Platforms as Quasi-Regulators

Chapter 8 Decentralizing Platform Governance